Until I heard from Carlos Gomez, I hadn’t given much thought to agricultural aviation, more commonly known as crop dusting, and its relation to the South Bay. Gomez mentioned his father Antonio once ...

A preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board released Wednesday revealed what happened in the moments leading up to the deadly midair collision of two crop-duster airplanes last ...

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Aerial application of pesticides, or crop dusting, is a crucial part of modern agriculture, increasing crop yields and reducing losses by billions of dollars annually. The job of an ag pilot is ...

An Air National Guard base in Oklahoma will host the first formal training unit for the service's armed recon crop duster plane used for special operations, an announcement that comes as watchdogs ...

A crop duster crashed in LaPlace Saturday morning, according to the St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office. The plane crashed at 9:12 a.m. in a field at East Airline Highway and Oswald Avenue, ...

Ever since Sir Frank Whittle in England and Hans von Ohain in Germany worked separately to invent the jet engine, the engine has been associated with high-performance machines. And, of course, some of ...